This report provides a summary of key trends in population growth and decline across Australia's regions, primarily between 2001 and 2009. The report highlights the role of migration in shaping Australia's settlement patterns, with a brief discussion on some of the underlying drivers.

This is the first of a series of reports analysing spatial trends in population, employment and commuting in our five largest cities.

Road crashes impose large costs on society and substantial investments are made in infrastructure and safety programs to reduce road trauma. This report presents new estimates of the cost of road crashes for 2006. The cost of road crashes is important to the safety debate in Australia, and the unit values particularly for a fatality...

This working paper models a base case scenario for emissions projections between 2007 and 2020, assuming no further abatement measures are taken. The underlying data has been used in recent reports prepared by the Department of Climate Change and the Treasury.

This study analyses the shifting geography of employment and highlights the dynamics of industry structure in Australia's main cities between 2001 and 2006. Between 2001 and 2006, the three industries with the highest average annual growth in employment were mining, government administration and defence, and construction. Output of most industries grew faster than the respective...